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Review on 🚦 Enhance Safety with Autosmart 2PCS Red 17" 11 LED Trailer Light Bar: Stop, Turn, Tail, Brake, Clearance Marker by William Chavez

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Happy with them so far.

Preliminary rating at the moment, but so far I'm satisfied. I am using them to build a light beam for a hitch mounted bike rack. There are 4 bikes, the headlights of the car can hardly be seen. I've been thinking about this for a long time. Once I do that I feel a lot better. I bought http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H9JFS2 to mount the light and some decently sized U-bolts on the arms. my bike rack. I load the bike rack, then attach this assembly to the ends of the arms and wire them up. The lights and the aluminum pole go well together. I bought a trailer wiring extension about 8 feet long to do the wiring. It was cheaper than a whole trailer hitch and the length was enough for me. I just cut off the end with a bare wire. The lights are flush with the surface. I'll fasten them with rivets. You will either need to drill a hole under the headlights for the wiring or dremel/file the trailing edge area to get the wiring out from under the headlights. If you use a hole, also use a socket or harness to avoid chafing and shorting. Solder the wires and use heat shrink tubing for insulation for best results. There is enough space under the headlights to hide these connections to protect them from the weather. Wiring is simple and essentially follows the wire color rules for trailer wiring with 4-wire spade connectors. White is ground and most followers use this color for ground. Also. Black is the positive line for the parking light with lower brightness. The trailer wire it goes to is most likely brown. Green is the positive wire for high brightness brake/turn signals. On most trailers, yellow represents the left side (driver's side) and green represents the right side (passenger's side). In fact, I haven't collected everything yet. I have everything connected now, just twisted the wires together for testing. They work fine. In the full sunlight hitting the ground I could easily see that the lights were on with the marker lights on. They shone as bright as car headlights. I turned on the emergency flashers and the lights were pretty bright and easy to see even in direct sunlight. They should be suitable for what I use them for. Update: I forgot I never updated this with a picture after putting it together. The photo only shows the rear light. Brake/Turn mode is much brighter. They compare favorably with car headlights. There are no bikes in the photo, so you can see my car's headlights for comparison.

Pros
  • Satisfied so far
Cons
  • Nothing